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What makes regions in Eastern Europe catching up? The role of foreign investment, human resources and geography
Tondl, Gabriele; Vuksic, Goran - 2003
This paper analyses regional growth in Eastern Europe in the second half of the 1990s, when regional disparities sharply increased. We aim to identify the factors behind growth and investigate in particular the role of (foreign) investment, education and innovation as well as geographical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301178
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What makes regions in Eastern Europe catching up? : the role of foreign investment, human resources and geography
Tondl, Gabriele; Vuksic, Goran - 2003
This paper analyses regional growth in Eastern Europe in the second half of the 1990s, when regional disparities sharply increased. We aim to identify the factors behind growth and investigate in particular the role of (foreign) investment, education and innovation as well as geographical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516933
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What makes regions in Eastern Europe catching up? The role of foreign investment, human resources and geography
Tondl, Gabriele; Vuksic, Goran - Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), … - 2003
This paper analyses regional growth in Eastern Europe in the second half of the 1990s, when regional disparities sharply increased. We aim to identify the factors behind growth and investigate in particular the role of (foreign) investment, education and innovation as well as geographical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008614796
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Decentralization, social capital and regional convergence
Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2013
By studying the interaction between social capital and decentralization, we show that political decentralization can be a source of divergence across heterogeneous regions. In particular, we claim that since the local endowments of social capital display their effect on the economy mainly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757366
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Selective migration, regional growth and convergence : evidence from Italy
Fratesi, Ugo; Percoco, Marco - In: Regional studies 48 (2014) 10, pp. 1650-1668
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010433531
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How Fast are the Tourism Countries Growing? The cross-country evidence
Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2003
Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 "tourism countries" within a sample of 143 countries, observed during the period 1980-95....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325125
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How fast are the tourism countries growing? : the cross-country evidence
Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2003
Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 tourism countries within a sample of 143 countries, observed during the period 1980-95....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592920
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How Fast are the Tourism Countries Growing? The cross-country evidence
Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003
Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 “tourism countries” within a sample of 143 countries, observed during the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423168
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Regional convergence in the European Union (1985 - 1999): A spatial dynamic panel analysis
Badinger, Harald; Müller, Werner G.; Tondl, Gabriele - 2002
We estimate the speed of income convergence for a sample of 196 European NUTS 2 regions over the period 1985-1999. So … convergence of 6.9 per cent and a capital elasticity of 0.43. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295552
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The Changing Pattern of Regional Convergence in Europe
Tondl, Gabriele - 1998
The article provides an assessment of the regional convergence process between the Western European regions since the … 1950s. Two sets of issues are addressed: (a) Is there sufficient evidence of regional convergence? If so, has the speed of … convergence changed over time and is this speed satisfactory. (b) Is convergence a phenomenon limited to the core EC regions as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014212593